[ok-edinburgh] Fwd: Re: EUDL: Open Knowledge Scotland - feedback on announce mail?

Fri Mar 26 21:01:15 UTC 2010

dear Nicola, thanks very much for this. You're the only EUDLer who 
replied! ;) CC'ing your rewrite to the mailing list so that there's a 
note beyond my inbox ;)

We would benefit from social marketing advice too :)

Yes we should definitely have an email address there. I have an okfn 
one, we could make an alias which includes several of us.

Notes from last planning chat appended to http://piratepad.net/U3FDc7c3rP

be well all,

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: EUDL: Open Knowledge Scotland - feedback on announce mail?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:05:48 +0000
From: Nicola Osborne <nicola.osborne at ed.ac.uk>
To: Jo Walsh <jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk>

Jo,

Firstly this looks like a super event ;) And I would attend but then I
think the first sentence would do that for me and I guess others might
want to read further so my comments are presented as tweaks to the text
- hope that's ok?

The one question I have is about the short talks - your request seemed
to be duplicated so I've tweaked it but not sure if I've entirely
understood the intent. I've also changed a couple of bits of word
ordering where I think that will make them more search engine friendly.
I would be tempted to also add an email address for any questions at the
end of the announcement (as I think you might get a few questions
especially about the short talks).

--------Begin Tweaked Text----------

Open Knowledge Scotland
-----------------------

Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm
Cost: Free
Register:  http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/

Open Knowledge Scotland brings together individuals from across the open
knowledge spectrum for an afternoon and evening of talking and teaching.

Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a
wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology.
Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and
reuse, improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing
societal welfare.

In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap
and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open
knowledge projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, in the last
year, many governments across the world have begun opening up their data.

In academia, open access to both publications and data has been
gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have
been heard in education. This gathering flood of open data and content
is the creator and driver of massive technological change. How can we
make data available? How can we connect it together? How can we use it
collaborate and share our work? How can Scotland benefit from open data?

In the spirit of openness and exchange we would very much welcome anyone
attending to contribute a short talk on any aspect of creating,
publishing or reusing open data or content, where "open" is understood
by the definition at: http://opendefinition.org/.  If you would like to
present a short talk then please indicate this when registering for the
event.

Topics for the event include (but are not limited to):

### Technology
* Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge
* Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open
knowledge
* Light-weight, adaptive interaction models
* Open, decentralized social network applications
* Open geospatial data

### Law, Society and Democracy
* Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain
* Open government data and content (public sector information)
* Open knowledge and international development
* Opening up access to the law

### Culture and Education
* Open educational resources and tools
* Business models for open content
* Incentive and rewards open-knowledge contributors
* Open textbooks
* Public domain digitisation initiatives

### Science and Research
* Opening up scientific data
* Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models
* Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication
('open-access')
* Tools for analysing and visualizing open data
* Open knowledge in the humanities

--------End Tweaked Text----------

Hope that helps?

Nicola.

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all at EUDL,
>
> Robin, Stuart and I, with some folks from SCRIPT, and support from
> IDEA Lab, are planning a 4-hour Open Knowledge mini-conference at
> inSpace below the School of Informatics, on 13th May.
>
> Here's the draft of the email announcement, which we should start
> circulating very soon. The text is cribbed from the text for the Open
> Knowledge conference in London. It would be great to have some
> feedback on this text. Would you attend this event? Is it clear what
> we're asking for? Does the tone fit the scope (a fairly informal
> afternoon/evening, hoping to attract people from outside of the
> University as well as within it?)
>
> Comments on or off-list would be very much appreciated.
>
>
> Open Knowledge Scotland
> -----------------------
>
> Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
> When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm
> How much: free
> Register:  http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/
>
> Open Knowledge Scotland brings together individuals from across the
> open knowledge spectrum for an afternoon and evening of talking and
> teaching.
>
> Please feel encouraged to contribute a short talk on any aspect of
> creating, publishing or reusing data or content that is open according
> to http://opendefinition.org/  Please sign up to present a short talk
> when registering.
>
>
> Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a
> wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology.
> Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access
> and reuse, improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing
> societal welfare.
>
> In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia,
> OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth
> among open knowledge projects and communities at all levels. Moreover,
> in the last year, many governments across the world have begun opening
> up their data.
>
> In academia, open access to both publications and data has been
> gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials
> have been heard in education. Furthermore this gathering flood of open
> data and content is the creator and driver of massive technological
> change. How can we make this data available, how can we connect it
> together, how can we use it collaborate and share our work? How can
> Scotland benefit from open data?
>
> ## Topics
>
> We welcome proposals on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing
> content or data that is open in accordance with
> http://opendefinition.org.
>
> Topics include but are not limited to:
>
> ### Technology * Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open
> knowledge * Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and
> curating open knowledge * Light-weight, adaptive interaction models *
> Open, decentralized social network applications * Open geospatial data
>
> ### Law, Society and Democracy * Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the
> Public Domain * Open government data and content (public sector
> information) * Open knowledge and international development * Opening
> up access to the law
>
> ### Culture and Education * Open educational tools and resources *
> Business models for open content * Incentive and rewards
> open-knowledge contributors * Open textbooks * Public domain
> digitisation initiatives
>
> ### Science and Research * Opening up scientific data * Supporting
> scientific workflows with open knowledge models * Open models for
> scientific innovation, funding and publication ('open-access') * Tools
> for analysing and visualizing open data * Open knowledge in the
> humanities
>
>
>